The Glenn Beck Program - Explaining Trump's 'Whiplash' on Dealing with Iran | Guest: Mikayla Hedrick | 7/9/26

Episode Date: July 9, 2026

Glenn starts the show by discussing the latest in America’s conflict with Iran and why Iran remains a dangerous threat to the West. Glenn also gives the difference between Iran and North Korea, as Glenn argues that President Trump is attempting to do exactly what needs to be done to end the Iran threat. Glenn also tells the story of how President Trump traveled to Turkey in a fancy new plane, but due to the Iranian threat near the border, Trump had to fly back in an old armored jet with the shades lowered. Glenn discusses the downfall of the once-informative Smithsonian Museum, which he claims has now been captured by self-loathing revisionism that turns American heroes into villains and core values into racial flaws. Glenn Beck producer and co-author of "Chasing Embers" Mikayla Hedrick joins to discuss the release of the audiobook and the production behind it. Graham Platner has officially dropped out of the Maine Senate race after a sexual assault accusation, and Glenn discusses how Democrats manipulate elections with superdelegates to hand-select candidates for critical elections.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I got a lot. I got a lot to say. I can't wait because I've spent some time looking at that 167 page report on the Smithsonian. And I was just at the Smithsonian, and it's crap. but the good news is Trump came out, said 167 page reports show how out of step with the American story the Smithsonian is. But the New York Times just broke some news

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Last month you said Iranian leaders were very rational people, nice people to deal with. strong people, smart people. Today you said they were scum, sick people and being led by sick people. What changed and do you think I got to know. I've said that about a lot. Now, when you say rational, I think they're much

more rational than level one, level two. Level one is gone. Level two is gone. This is level three. And I think we're taking the elevator down a couple more levels here in the coming days. I'll explain what he's doing, but let me just talk on the way his language has changed.

Do you remember Little Rocket Man? I mean, this is a New York Times reporter. They are so stupid. Ask the president something that you don't already know if you just engage your brain. You know this. Remember, Little Rocket Man, he's crazy, he's short. I'm thinking about turning his entire country into glass because he's unreasonable. and then he goes over and meets with him

and they do a deal and he's like, we're pals, we're pals. How about this one? How about this one? Remember this one? Glenn Beck, he's a fat failure. Remember that? Now, we're pals. Donald Trump,

there's a system to Donald Trump, okay? You put yourself in a position of an enemy of his and he calls him. you a fat loser or a short little dictator, a rocket man, who he's going to vaporize, or your scum. Now, you start moving in his direction because he's a negotiator. You start moving in his direction and what happens? All of a sudden, you know what? I missed a lot of his brain

cells. He's got a lot going on upstairs. Now, let me tell you one thing personally about him. it's all negotiation. He doesn't mean this stuff. It's negotiation. How do I know that? I was with the president a year ago, and I'm walking down the stairs from the residence, and Ricky is with me.

And we're just kind of joking around about stuff. And Ricky looks up the stairs and says, don't worry, Mr. President. He's going to give you a good review tomorrow. And he's looking down at me from the balcony up upstairs. I'm walking down the stairs. I'm walking down the stairs. So he's right above me.

I'm looking up from the stairs. He's looking down at me on the stairs. And he went, oh, Ricky, I know. Otherwise, tomorrow, he'll be a fat loser. And we all laughed. We all laughed. Okay? Because that's, I know how he operates.

He knows how he operates. And I think he appreciates people who understand this is negotiation. All right? That's what happens. He's known who you don't, if you are bringing somebody in and they're getting closer and closer, don't bite them, flatter them. You get more with sugar than vinegar. Remember that?

That's what he does. And then he's also making sure that they understand you're in trouble and I will vaporize you. That's important. Now, before I get to why that's important, let me play one more thing. Here's, this is cut 12, talking to reporters on Air Force One. This is after we've unloaded, I don't know, another billion dollars worth of bombs. Here's what Trump says on Air Force One. Listen.

We have many ways we can win, but we've already won militarily. They have very little left, and they have very little left, and they want to make a deal so badly. they called a little while ago they want to make a deal so badly. I just don't know if they're worthy of making a deal. I don't know if they're going to honor the deal. That's the problem. If they want to make a deal,

why do you think they attacked commercial vessels? Because it's not a crazy, to be honest with it. They're a little bit out of control. But they want to make a deal. Badly. Okay. I think your whole world will open up if you just listen to

my read on this. Now, I don't have any inside information. I just listen to him. I listen to him. I read his books. I think I understand him. So let me open up your world. If that doesn't make sense to you, okay, what, wait, you just said they were crazy. And now, why are they wanting to make a deal? Well, because I just unleashed hell on them. But you said they were, scum and they don't want to make a deal. And now you're saying they really want to make a deal. Yes. But who wants to make a deal? Let me explain what I believe is his strategy. Yesterday, I told you that Trump is knowingly, uh, or not, maybe, but he instinctively understands he's looking for an Albert Speer figure. Albert Speer was the,

the good friend of Donald Trump, I mean of Adolf Hitler, he was a good friend and he was the architect. He was there at the very beginning of the movement back in the 1920s. By his side the whole time, at the very end, he tells Speer like four weeks left in the war, Hitler's about to kill himself, and he comes up with the Nero doctrine. Hitler does. And he says, burn it all down. I want to burn it all down. This is when Speer realizes we're going to lose, and now I have to decide, am I going to live or die?

Do I betray Hitler now? Because I want to live. He survived the Nuremberg trials because of what he didn't do by following Hitler one last time on burn it all down. Okay. So Trump's Iran strategy is not hunting for a moderate to negotiate. It's trying to make the regime looked doomed enough that a senior insider decides his best move is to help the outside win in exchange for surviving what comes after. pressure and diplomacy are one instrument. They're not two. One. And the counterparty that they're aimed at isn't a good guy and isn't the whole council. It's one self-interested guy who would rather be remembered as the man who saved the country than the guy who was just taken out in the

middle of the night by a bomb. Okay. Maximum pressure and open negotiations are not intention in this scenario. Pressure builds the private conclusion that the regime is finished. That's what he's trying to do. He's saying, they want to make a deal so bad, but I don't know if they're going to, I don't know, I don't even know if I want to make a deal with them. Basically, what is he saying? You're doomed.

I'm coming for you. It might be too late. Okay. The negotiation is the off-ramp waiting for whoever reaches that conclusion first. he's going to kill all of us. And there is somebody, let's say there's 20 people. There might be a couple of people in there that are talking to themselves right now going, I don't think we're going to survive this.

When they believe that they're not going to survive, that person, that group of people will then start to sabotage inside to be able to go and say, I want to negotiate. I want to save our country. okay, that's what's really happening here. And it stops working when no insider actually believes the regime is losing. At that point, the pressure produces defiance instead of defection. And that gives you North Korea.

You don't want North Korea, okay? Let me say this again. If this stops working, if the regime and every person, at the table. Let's say there's 20 guys and all 20 of them are like, they're not going to do it. They're not going to actually destroy us. They won't do it. When they believe they're going to survive, that stops this and then it solidifies into what happened in North Korea. It's the North Korea trap. Okay. And it has one root cause. The regime got a survival guarantee before any insider concluded it was finished.

Once the people in North Korea, the leadership, around, you know, rocket man, once they had the bomb and Beijing was behind it, no senior figure was ever going to look around and decide the ship was sinking because it wasn't. The pressure kept running, but there was nothing for it to land on, okay, because they knew they had China's backing

and they had a nuclear weapon. So we're not going anywhere. to avoid that with Iran, four things have to happen and be true all at the same time. First, the window has to be open, meaning you have to move before they have nuclear weapons. He's done that. If once they cross that nuclear line, no insider is going to conclude the game is up. So you'll be frozen with the people who are running it. Second thing, the patrons have to be visibly wavering.

because as long as Moscow and Beijing look like they'll catch the regime if it falls, they say, you know what, China's got our back, we're fine. Russia has our back. It was fine. That's why it was so important when he went over to China to get them on our side. Okay. Once they're not sure if China will really have their back, they're done. Third thing, the off-ramp has to be personal and specific.

This is not a general invitation to negotiate. A named figure needs a credible path to survive the collapse with his money, his family, and some claim that he actually helped save the country. It has to be personal, but that person has to appear first. So I can guarantee you they're sending those signals. Trump's transactional instinct actually helps here because the recruitment is closer to a deal with one man than a treaty with a state. You just need one guy. Fourth, the pressure has to move fast enough that the insider can act before internal security

notices what he's doing. He's hesitating since the same signals that make him reachable to you also make him a target at home. Speer moved in the last four weeks, not in the middle years, and he did it for a reason, okay? Because the time had to be short, otherwise he would have been caught and killed. So it has to be short and it has to be right before the collapse. The trap closes if any of those four conditions fail. If Iran gets across the nuclear line, if the window shuts, if Russia and China visibly backstop them, no doom perception will form.

If the offer stays vague and state to state, there's no counter. counter party for it to find. And if the pressure grinds on for years without a clear crisis point, the regime just purges the spear-shaped people from the senior ranks and eventually you're negotiating with a room of true believers, which is exactly the North Korea endgame. So let me tell you why this matters, because you might think, well, North Korea is not a problem. Right. But Iran is not North Korea. It's much worse than that. And I'll explain in just a second. First, let me tell you our sponsor. It's chapter. There are some decisions in life we're having too many options. It's actually worse than having too few. Cheesecake Factory is one of them. I mean, I go to Cheesecake

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Pound 250, keyword chapter. Do it now. 10 seconds. Station ID. Okay, so North Korea is not Iran. And this is why. North Korea sits on a peninsula. It doesn't have any serious ambitions, you know, to take on everybody else.

they have they know they're going to survive okay um the allies are already living under the nuclear umbrella of america and the bomb froze this really bad situation in place but the situation was already local iran is different in four ways that compound it sits on the persian gulf which is a fifth of the world oil passes right at their doorstep a regime that can incredibly threaten nuclear or escalation gets a permanent veto power over anyone interfering with its behavior in that waterway, the Strait of Hormuz. Every oil shock for the next 50 years will run on Tehran's mood. Two, it also runs a live proxy network across four countries, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen,

militias in Iraq, and what's left of Assad's apparatus in Syria. North Korea doesn't have any proxies, okay? The nuclear umbrella over Iran also is a nuclear umbrella over everything those proxies do, because retaliation against the sponsor now carries escalation risk. The proxies become untouchable because their parent has a nuclear bomb, and that also triggers a regional cascade. Saudi Arabia has already said publicly for years, If Iran gets the bomb, we have to have a bomb.

Turkey's not going to sit with an Iranian bomb without one of its own. Egypt follows that. So you go from one nuclear state in the Middle East, Israel, undeclared, to four or five, almost overnight, in the most unstable region on Earth with active shooting wars already running. This is not North Korea. It's a very dangerous situation. So what do we do about it? Well, exactly what I think what Donald Trump is doing.

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Last time you made Chasing Embers a New York. time's bestseller. Now let's do it again. Get the new audiobook at glenbeck.com today. You know, in history, there have been a couple of people that have been, you know, world leaders that have made peace with their death. And Martin Luther King was one of them. I may not join you on the mountaintop. I may not get there with you. And Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln knew he was going to die. and made peace with it. He had dreams and everything else.

He just didn't tell his wife about it, but he wrote about it and he talked about it. More obliquely, Donald Trump said something yesterday. And remember, Donald Trump is a guy, if you know anything about him, he speaks things into reality. He does not say things without the understanding of manifesting it.

Okay? like he never will talk to you about an assassination attempt. He will not talk to you about it. However, lately, he's been saying things like he said yesterday. I want you to listen to this. Do you know why they had us close our window blinds? That was nine years. Well, yeah, because you're probably on a dangerous way.

Because the sleeves bags that we have to do. It's the thing that Iran was possibly thinking. Well, I mean, if they asked you to close your windows, probably they'd feel them. They didn't ask me to close mine, but if they did, I would have done it. These are sick people. So I could see something like that. I didn't know they did that, but I could see something.

Were you aware of any credible threat by Iran against her first one? I haven't threatened all the time. I'm number one on their list before you. But if I go, you go. Right? But was there a specific thing today? Perhaps someday want to change professions. Now, he also said yesterday these things like threats,

of the president, they usually don't work out well. And the way he said it, in a way, seemed like he was making peace with that. And I will tell you, I've lived with credible threats for a long time. And some of them have just been, it's like now, it's just always in the background. But there have been times when I have a serious threat. We know the individual who's made the threats. They're still out there, you know, or we know, or we know. a group that's making a credible threat.

And so it's different. And the first time I dealt with it, I didn't know how to deal with it. You don't know how to live your life when you know somebody. When you know somebody you could walk up, you know, in a crowd of people and somebody could turn to you and go, hey, Glenn, and then shoot you to death. It's a weird thing. And the way I got through it was I just imagined the worst that could happen. And I'm not going to get into it.

But I just imagine what that would be like and the worst. And so I visualized it. And then I went, okay, well, that's the worst that could happen. And then I could move on. And it actually helped me. And I think that's what Donald Trump is doing. He is finding a way that he can compartmentalize this and go on with his life and be out in public. And, you know, I'm okay with it.

If that's what's going to happen, that's what's going to happen. You have to do that. But the lowering of the shades thing had me think about several different. things and I want to take you through what was going through my mind. So the president flies to Turkey and he uses his brand new airplane, the gold trim, the red, white and blue. It's a beautiful plane. It's a flying palace. And it was gifted by Qatar. And he's been showing it off kind of like he's just like me. If I have a new truck, I am just driving around going, look at the truck, man. Is this not a great truck? That's what he was doing. The old one is what he flew home on. Okay. And this is why this

reporter asked these questions. It's the baby blue jet. So one that, you know, your grandfather recognizes, you know, and, you know, Jackie O designed, okay. Before the wheels even left the tarmac in Turkey, the reporters on board, you just heard it, were told to do something they never get told to do. Would you close your window shades? All right. The man who climbed the stairs had just spent two days telling anyone, anyone, you know, with a microphone, with his words, he's the number one kill list in Iran. And that's not bluster. This spring, a trained operative of Iran's Revolutionary Guard was convicted in a courtroom here in America. You didn't hear much about this, but it was a murder for hire a plot to kill him. Also, back in February, on the first morning of this war,

America and Israel killed the man at the very top of Iran. The regime's security chief went. and on television and promise to hold Donald Trump responsible and we will kill him. Okay. So there's a reason to think about the window shades. Now, here's the part that nobody's really talking about. You know, we've argued about this plane, you know, whether it's a gift or who gets it or the color of the plane. The old jet, the ugly one, that's all armored in places you don't see.

Missile warning sensors that watch the sky for the heat of incoming warheads. electronic countermeasures, you know, to blind whatever's chasing it. Communications hardened so no one can listen in, shielding built so the president can carry through an EMP and a nuclear blast. Decades of quiet, classified engineering, all of it built for exactly one job. Bring him home through hostile air no matter what it is. The new beautiful one doesn't have any of that stuff. The retrofit was rushed. Normally it takes years and years, cost billions of dollars squeezed into months.

One former CIA official said, it's not ready for prime time overseas. Okay. Let me say it another way. This one should stay at home. He can fly this plane at home. But we need the big blue one until we get Boeing to finish the very expensive one. So it's not at home. And in fact, if you look at the map, who does Turkey Shoe? share a border with. Turkey shares a border with Iran. Iran has drones and ballistic missiles. The Shahabs and the Shabibs or the Shaheds or whatever they are. Anyway, some of them can reach 800 miles. This airport sits inside of that ring. Meanwhile, the gorgeous new plane was sent on ahead, empty of the president to England. England's 2,500 miles away, past the reach of, you know, anything

in Iran's inventory. So the palace was perfectly safe going there. It wasn't safe bringing him home past Iran's front door. The armor, it turns out, is a map problem. And that's why they said put the shades down. He wasn't on the plane. He wasn't on the plane, which would have made me more nervous. Wait a minute, put the shades on. Why am I on this plane? Now, when this happened yesterday, I had just gotten off the air and I saw Ricky's face when her eyes just went as round as saucers. And she was like, what are you saying? Because I said, if I'm the president,

I target every member of that council and I kill them one by one. And I let them know, I'm coming for you next. I might be you next. Might be somebody else on the council next, but you're on the list. And you make them so paranoid that somebody collapses and does what I told you, I think what the president's, you know, plan is at the beginning of this hour. Now, if Iran killed Trump, if they used a missile and it was executed by the army, it's not an

assassination. What they have been doing, if they bring a guy in out of a uniform and they just have a rocket and they point it up there in Turkey and they pointed up at the sky and they take it out, then it's murder, it's terror and it's an assassination. nation, okay? And everybody would be wipe them off the face of the earth. Even if they had their military do it, it still would not go well for them. Okay, four months ago at the beginning of this war, American Israel killed the top guy, Supreme Leader. And we called that a strike, an operation, practically a Tuesday. And the president said it out loud that he got Khomeini before

Kameenie could get him. Same verb pointed both. directions. So is there a difference? Because we've made a promise not to kill leaders. Our CIA has done in the past and it's wrong when we do it. Okay. But it's not a question of can you do it. It's a question on whose hand is on the trigger. And there is a difference. Okay. In the difference, we made this decision before we were even a country. Civilization spent centuries building walls between two worlds, war and murder. Thou shalt not murder. Well, that doesn't apply to war, okay?

It's actually between two men, the soldier and the assassin. A soldier wears a uniform, fights in the open, under a flag, under a chain of command, in a declared fight. Say what you want about the killing of commandee. Wise or reckless, whatever, righteous or ruinous,

whatever it is, you decide. But it was done by the uniform forces of nations in daylight in a war. What Iran has tried to do to Trump was hire a man, cash for killing, arranged in the dark, to be carried out by a hired hand who would slip out of the country before the, you know, the deed was done.

Not a soldier, an assassin, not a war, murder. The difference is not about who's stronger. It's about the rule. And I know this sounds crazy in a world where you're talking about war, but there are rules. and the entire point of the laws of war, the thing that separates us from the pit,

is that even killing has limits. Who, how, when, in the open, or in the dark. But that wall is only as strong as our willingness to honor it when it costs us something. The moment we decide decapitating the other side's leadership is just good efficient policy, that the result is worth quietly kicking out the bottom brick by hiring some assassin to go in and do it, then we're in trouble because the other

side watches, the whole world watches, and they will hand back our own logic. So if leadership is a target, then our leadership is a target. On the tarmac, if they would have used a military missile, it would not have been an assassination. It would have been, it would have been war. Okay. And you can't cheer the decapitation strike and then act stunned when they aim for your So we have to be really careful. And that's why I don't want the CIA going in and killing leaders because you're setting that example. The military can do it.

Killing the president in the United States is different from killing the leader of a nation at war. But the difference is thinner than we'd like to believe. And it's held up by nothing sturdier than our own discipline, our own willingness to keep the rule, even when breaking it would feel like winning. So when I said yesterday, because this bothered me yesterday, because I kept thinking about Ricky looking at me going,

what are you saying? Because what I said was, I don't want boots on the ground. And I believe what the president is doing is looking for an Albert Spear. He's trying to find somebody that wants to live more than, you know, wants to, you know, worship Allah, you know, and the 12th, the mom and the, you know, the Mahadi and bring the world into chaos. Somebody who says, you know what, I just want to live. And the way to do that is to show them, you're going to be dead.

If you keep down this path, you're going to be dead. And you don't want to kill the Iranians and the Persians. They're good people. You want to kill the bad guys. So target them, but target them militarily. Now, one last thing. Back to the runway. They're telling people, you know, not to look out the window.

most protected human being alive is not on this plane because he needed the armor. The beautiful one didn't have it and that's the one you're on and you might want to close the shades. Wow. It's interesting that it happened to those people, to the press, okay? Because it was the press that has spent the last year arguing about the gold and the gift and the billion dollars and, you know, it's red, white and blue and it should be, you know, Jackie O. Robin, you know, Robin's egg. you know, Tiffany's blue. They really weren't talking about the missile sensors. You know what I mean?

Not until the shades came down. Maybe they should reexamine their priorities. Maybe it's not always about the personality. Maybe it's just not about, oh, he really likes gold. Oh, he, you know, is he just trying to get a free plane? Maybe you should narrow that because you're on the same plane. And when it burst into flames because a missile hit it, nobody's going to care what color it was.

And nobody's going to remember your death. So maybe you should focus on the right things. All right, back in just a minute. Burn a launcher. We have spent a lot of time thinking about what we do after an emergency. Who do we call? How do we get home? What the insurance company is going to say.

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So page 6395 wrote in, she just joined Torch, became a member of Torch. She said, Glenn, I have been a listener of yours for many years. I joined tonight because of something my 14-year-old just said to me. She said, Mom, America is not a great country. Look at what they're doing to the immigrants. no one's illegal on stolen land. That's in quotes. We've always been a conservative household. I've discussed many of these things with her.

And I'm not even sure where I've gone wrong. I want her to love America and to understand where we came from. I'm hoping to use some of your material to help with this. I don't even know where to start. If you have any advice or where I should start, I would be most grateful. I would start with the American story. That's the first thing I would do is start with the American story. That's a podcast. It's all commercial free. There's going to be 20 episodes here by the end of the month or hour long, and they are really well done, and they are captivating. I would start there. But there's many other things. And the great thing is, Torch is a community. We're just talking about that a minute ago during the commercial break. The Torch is a community. And they'll help you because we're all working towards the same thing. And I will tell you that,

I made a decision last night. I'm taking a, I'm taking two weeks of vacation, which I never do. I don't take two weeks of vacation. But I'm taking two weeks of vacation because my children who are 19 and 20 or 19 and 21 now are struggling. They're college age. One's in college. One's not. And, but they're both hearing the same thing.

It's all coming from social media. And they're coming to me with questions. I spent a few days with them in Washington, and I could see the drift. And they're both fighting to understand, but they don't know it. In my household, they don't know it. And they have been with me, and they have seen things, and they have history. I mean, they have been in my vault. They've seen the documents.

We were just at the National Archives, in the vault of the National Archives with my kids, looking at documents and explaining history to them. If my kids struggle with this, God help you. What is it like to be a parent in your house? It is overwhelming what's happening to them on social media. So I'm taking my kids to class for a couple of weeks. And I'll explain that later in detail. And I just decided this last night.

Because my wife and I were driving and my wife said, I feel like we failed in so many ways. And I said, honey, I say that to you and you always say to me, stop it. You didn't. We did the best we could. And I said, I want to give you that advice. And she says, it's not helpful. And I said, I just want you to know, that's kind of what I say to you when you say it to me. But it's true. Do the best you can. The Lord will make up for the difference. But you have to engage in different ways. I was in Washington, D.C., and I went to the Smithsonian. And I have to tell you, I am so glad that next year we are opening the American Journal.

experience because I went to the Smithsonian and while they have billions, they have everything on the American story, the way they tell it is, A, boring, and B, so skewed now, I don't even recognize my country. And this is better than it was under Biden. They've made a lot of changes. But I went into the Smithsonian, the American History Museum. It's not even worth going to. It really isn't. It's not worth going to because I don't know any kid that's going to connect with it. And some of the things that they're showing are just, you know, horrible. You know, James Smithson is the guy. He was an English scientist. And he was the illegitimate son of a Duke in England.

He was locked out by the accident of his birth and from the titles and the inheritance. in England, and he died in a rented room in 1829. He had never come to the United States, ever. He had no American friends. No one in America he could even, he knew or could name, no businesses here. There's no reason. And yet that guy is the guy who left us everything. There was a strange little clause at the end of his will that if his nephew died without

children, his entire fortune would cross the ocean to a country he had never been to to the United States of America, to found at Washington under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. What made America different? Well, his nephew died young and childless. So 1838, an American ship comes home to America with 104, 900, I'm sorry, 104,000, 960 gold sovereigns in giant crates. A stranger's whole fortune handed to us when we're barely 50 years old. Here's the amazing thing. You know, we almost threw it out.

We almost didn't accept it. John Calhoun rose on the Senate floor and said, this is beneath the dignity of the United States to accept charity from a foreigner. Others just wanted to sweep it into a general spending and forget the man's wishes entirely. It fell to one man, one of my favorite presidents, John Quincy Adams. Someday I'm going to do a, someday I'll do a quick podcast on John Quincy Adams, because he's one of the most, he's one of the most important presidents we've ever had, one of the most important citizens we've ever had.

This guy was amazing. Anyway, he's a former president. He's finishing out his life as a congressman. And he is fighting and fighting. And he fought for years to keep that gift from being squandered. To what nobler object could he, you know, ask his colleagues than to take this donation and devote. that donation to the spreading of the American secret.

He won, and this is the only reason why the Smithsonian exists. A stranger who never saw America, but saw us from afar, believed in her enough to leave everything, and a statesman who believed that the stranger's faith was warranted, because he could see the goodness of America as well. and he defended the pirates, if you will, in his own government. So last week, I'm at the Smithsonian, and I'm seeing some beautiful things, some really remarkable things. And then I also see some horrible things.

And I had told the president, I was in the hall, the, what is it, the portrait hall or portrait museum. And there are parts of it that were beautiful and have all the portraits of, you know, all the presidents and everything else and some really great stuff. But then when I was there for his inauguration, I went there, and it was awful. It was awful. The things that they were highlighting made no sense, all tearing America down. Well, he took this seriously when he got into office, and the White House Domestic Policy Council

has just put out a 162-page report on the crown jewel of that stranger's gift, the National Museum of American History. I was just there. Whatever you make of the messenger, I want you to listen to what is drawn from the museum's own materials. There is an exhibit on Benjamin Franklin. Now, Benjamin Franklin was adored the world over. They made plates that hung on the walls of homes in Paris with his face on it.

They said he was like the Elon. Musk, except more mysterious at the time. He was the lightning genius, okay? And when there's this article in, I think it's the New York Times, or sorry, the London Times from the, you know, the 1700s, right about the time we're starting to break away. And he's coming to town to talk to the king. And they said, be careful. Everybody in London should leave because he's been messing around with lightning. And we think that he's bottled it. And he's come up with a lightning gun. and he tends to burn down the entire city of London. Okay.

The guy was a genius and nobody understood him. He was a diplomat. He helped bind France to us, to help win the revolution. The exhibit on Ben Franklin gives a fifth of the space on Ben Franklin to the enslaved. Now, he did own slaves. He did.

But at his time, that was normal everywhere in the world, world, but he evolved and became a massive abolitionist in the end. He fought against slavery. He's, again, a very complicated guy at the time for us to look back because we don't understand this was normal at the time. Okay. So as you're going through this, if you're going with a guide, you're seeing, and they focus a fifth of the time on slaves with him. Okay, all the other things he did. No, a fifth of it goes to slaves. Then they asked the question, and they just pull it, you know, just pull it out.

You know, let me ask you, do you think Ben Franklin ever used enslaved people in his electric experiments? Wait, what? Now, they concede in the text. There's no evidence. He did any of that. No evidence. There's no hint of that. All of a sudden, he's Dr. Frankenstein. Okay. It's not a fact. Of course not. I'm just asking questions. I'm just asking questions. Have you heard that before? I'm just asking questions. It's all I'm doing is asking questions. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. What is the purpose of your question again? This is a suggestion with nothing underneath it. And your children are walking through and as they're walking to the water, fountain, they're thinking, wow, did he do experiments with electricity on slaves? There's no truth to any of that.

Okay. The museum guidance, drawn from a document, a sister Smithsonian hung on its wall in 2020, that files hard work, nuclear family, individualism, and rational thinking under the heading of whiteness. hard work, the family, the individual, and rational thought. Those are the, that's the engine underneath every person who ever climbed out of nothing. It's been reclassified as a racial trait, something that should be examined and unlearned. The material that the families, I mean, families drive across the country to see this.

It's now full of sexual content, gender content, aimed squarely at your child. As you're packing your minivan to go to Washington, you don't expect to find that. I mean, I can get that on social media. I need that from my government. I have said before, a nation dies when it forgets who it is. Rome didn't fall in an afternoon because the barbarians at the gate. It rotted from the inside long before that when it stopped remembering what had made it Rome. that's the usual lesson.

People forget. But this is worse than forgetting. And let me explain how and why in 60 seconds. And strangely, I'll do it with history because it's a lot better than my opinion. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. There's an old principle, I'm sure you've heard before. If you want to see what's really, what people really care about, don't just listen to what they say.

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10 seconds. Station ID. You asked, we answered. Glenn's book Chasing Embers is now in audiobook format and Torch Insiders get an exclusive sneak peek. Taunt your ears today at Torch 250.com. Okay, I've told you before that a country loses itself when it forgets its story and forgets who it is. But this is worse, because forgetting is passive.

This is worse. This is not passive. This is active. And it's being funded by you and your tax dollars. Let me show you what happens. Let me go back to Moscow in 1953. Stalin had their secret police, and the secret police chief was arrested and shot. And at that moment, the great Soviet encyclopedia that was sitting on the shelves and homes all across the Soviet Union, it had carried many pages in the encyclopedia praising this guy.

So what do you do? We got to erase him now. We just shot him. He was a bad guy. So the state publishing house mailed its subscribers and envelope and inside were new pages and instructions. And honest to God, this is what they said. Take a razor blade, cut pages 21 through 24 out of your encyclopedia and paste the new pages as its replacement. And just like that, this guy was gone.

Millions of citizens sat in their own kitchen tables with their own hands and sliced a guy out of. history. That's a state rewriting its memory in real time and it's chilling because that was 1953. They don't need to do that. They can do that with a stroke on the keyboard and all of it has gone overnight and you have no idea it was edited. The Soviets edited to make themselves look better. They cut the villains out so the regime would shine. It was a lie, but a flattering one, self-glorifying. What we're funding now runs the other. way. It's saying take a razor blade to all the good

things in your history and cut these pages out and put these things in. The edit doesn't remove the villains to leave us as heroes. It turns heroes into villains. It makes the founding a crime scene. The founders, the accused, the whole inheritance,

something to apologize for you know, right there. It's a self-loathing lie. The Soviet citizen was compelled to do it. This is the big difference here. They were compelled to do it. A regime pressed the razor in its hand. Nobody's pressing anything into ours. We're doing this and paying for it. We're mailing in the check and we're doing it. Not even thinking. This is what

separates us and this from any private outfit with an axe to grind. The Smithsonian runs on $1.86 billion a year, and close to a billion of that comes straight out of the treasury, out of your pocket. Smithson, his crates of gold, they were the sea. The tree grew on public money. This is not a fringe group you can scroll past. It is the flagship carrying the trust of a foreign stranger in the labor of 180 years, and you're paying for it.

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Chasing Ember's audiobook is officially here. Every purchase brings a story to someone new. Get it now at Glennbeck.com. So we were talking about what's happening in the Smithsonian, and I started with this letter that I got from an insider who just joined us at Torch because her 14-year-old said, Mom, America's not a great country. Look at what they're doing to immigrants. No one is illegal on stolen land. Our kids are buying into all of this stuff, and it is so dangerous. And there was a 162-page report out about what the Smithsonian is doing. 2008, I started a personal project called the Clay Potts Project in my own head, in my own family, and it is based on what happened with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

We have the Dead Sea Scrolls. We can verify from an outside untouched source that's 2,000 years old because a community knew that people were coming for those documents and they were going to destroy them. So they took all their scriptures, rolled the scrolls up and put them in clay pots, put them in the back of a cave, and they left them. there forgot about them for 2,000 years. In the 1930s or 40s, a kid, a shepherd boy

was throwing rocks at a cave, expected to hear the back, hit the rock hit the back of the cave. Instead, he heard a crack of a pot, went in, that's how we discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls. Those things are so important because they verify as a separate source that these things happen. We are

going, and I said this in 2008, the people we are fighting against, should we lose? They will erase our history. They have all of these documents. I was just in the National Archives. They have all these documents. And they started under Biden putting disclaimers on the Declaration of Independence saying that it's a triggering document.

That is the first thing that happens when you're getting ready to destroy them. So I started preserving documents. David Barton is doing it. I'm doing it. An American Journey Experience, which is a subsidiary of Mercury 1 started doing it. We're all putting stuff together and we're building a museum coming next year. We are putting our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. We are putting our fortunes in these.

Just this summer, I don't say this to be grandiose. I say this to show you the commitment level that I and my family have to this. And it is all going to be going to a museum. But just in the last, this summer, because some really precious American, important American things have come up. I've invested over a quarter of a million dollars in just like five pieces for the museum. And there were so many pieces.

There was this unbelievable letter from George Washington to Thomas Payne that explains and corrects history. I just couldn't afford it. And there's all of this stuff coming up all the time. And it must be in private hands because the institutions that, have it now, they are corrupted, and they can hide it. They can bury it. You know, the National Archives

said something really interesting. They said, you know, we never lose anything, but we're constantly discovering stuff because they have billions of documents, literally 13 billion pieces in the collection. Nobody can keep up with all of that. So they're constantly going, oh my gosh, I just found this in the archives, you know, blah, blah, blah. So these last 10 or, 15, 20 years of my life. It's why I started the torch. I am dedicating my life, my fortune, my sacred honor to preserve American history and to teach American history.

And we're only at the beginning of this. So that's how one way, how your dollars go, you know, if you join the torch, some of those dollars go to me so I can take and buy American history and I can put it on display and travel it. We have pieces that are in museums all over the country right now. We have it traveling to schools and to churches, another set of documents and pieces of American history. And we've only just begun. And next year we're opening up a brick and mortar museum that hopefully will be very different than anything you've ever seen.

Because I'm going to tell the story of American history. And that's important. So when the insider last night, page 6395 wrote in and said, Glenn, I've been a listener of yours. My daughter, 14-year-old just said, we're not a great country. I joined the torch, but I don't even know where to start. She said, I don't know where to start. If you have any advice is where I should start, I'd be most grateful.

Yes, first thing you're doing is you're gaining access to a bunch of information, but please help us do this. please help us by, by, we monitor what people are watching and what is working, what's not. And if it's not being consumed, we try to find another way to tell that story. So, it will be consumed. So by trying everything on the torch and letting us know what's working, what's not, what's connecting with your kids and what's not helps us. One of the things that is really connecting with people is the American story.

And it is a 20, it'll be by, what is it in a couple of weeks, it'll be a 20 hour documentary, cut in hour pieces, all audio right now. It's produced. These things, one hour takes us a total of man hours of about 70 man hours to do one hour. And they are produced, unlike anything you've ever heard before. And it's a compelling way to learn history. I would recommend you start there. And you know, the New York Times came out last night. with a response to this 167-page memo that says, you know, we have a problem with the Smithsonian. And they come out with this deal and they say, no, we've talked to all of these history experts. And all of these history experts say, that's not right.

We're telling American story. Oh, so you got the experts. Like the experts that told us the Hunter Biden laptop. Like the experts that told us that it was Russia that was behind. Donald Trump, like the experts that told us to mask up and to take the sixth booster shot. Really? But this works on people. And people don't know why.

Why don't you listen to yourself? Why do you listen to experts? Why do you trust the expert on raising kids in many cases more than you trust your mom? This is new, by the way. It's never been like this. there is a series on the torch called Control Freaks and it explains how this happened and how well thought out and how coordinated it was in the 20th century

to get you to disconnect with yourself and the people in your own family that had the answers because they wanted and needed to shape the American people to do certain things and so they needed to introduce experts. And when you hear how crazy, how crazy they were and the crazy things they did, you will see, uh-uh, no, I'm sorry, there are experts that are required, but I'm not letting experts run my life.

So that's called control freaks, and that is available now. Michaela, who is one of my staff members, she wrote this great series, and we just did book one, and it was a New York Times bestseller, and we have had so many requests over the last couple of years. I just haven't had the time to do it, or quite honestly the money to do it, to do it the way I wanted to do it, an audiobook that is an adventure that takes and is vivid in its storytelling. There is a new study out that, by the way, that is available for audiobooks.

Wherever you get your audiobook, it's called Chasing Embers. It's out today. Please go get it. But there is a story out now. There's an article out in the Atlantic called The Death of Reading. We are literally losing the ability to read anything longer than an Instagram post. What was the thing that was punishable by death if you did for a slave? During the slave trade, what was the one thing you could not do?

Teach them to read. Because being able to read is the key to freedom. Okay? The number of Americans who read keeps going down. Less than half of all adults in America read a book in 2022. Just one book, less than half. Every year that your child gets older, the likelihood that he or she is going to read goes down.

30% of adults can't read multiple pages. and paraphrase it or tell you what it means. 30% can't tell you what they've just read means. There's a staff member at Harvard who said that asking students to read is like arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through its more difficult medium. Go home and read this. He's saying that is like withholding information because they don't do it.

So here's what we're looking at if we don't start to read. We're going back to the time when the elite read for us and told us what it was all about. And then I guess a government agency or AI can tell us what the declaration says or the Constitution. And they can paraphrase it and post it on X. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? This is what William Tyndale, this is why he was burned at the stake. By the way, you don't know who William Tyndale is. read or listen to Chasing Embers because we've put him in there.

Chasing Embers is this dystopian story about the future. It's written for young adults. It's really great. And it buries certain things. They're trying to piece history together and remember it. And so there are pieces there that we hope your kids will learn and go, wow, I didn't even know anything about that. Who is this person?

William Tyndale is one of them. He fought to get the Bible to be, in English, so the average person could read it and decide for himself. Because if you go to the church and if the church is corrupt and they're the only ones that can read it, they can say, you know, God said he's really pissed at you and you need to pay me some more money. You need to do exactly this or you'll burn in the fires of hell. He knew this was wrong. He risked his life and died printing the Bible, pages of the Bible, in English.

so people could read it for themselves. Revolutionary idea back then. Absolutely revolution. He gave his life for it. Today there's a Bible in every nightstand at every one-star hotel. Access is no longer the problem. The Bible is on your phone. The books are there.

We just don't read them. We find no value in the books. That's why we're forgetting our own story. And that is the heart of most of our problem. today. But the answer isn't to chain kids to books and force them to read. It'll just backfire. They'll hate it. Our kids have to fall in love with good stories again. You know, so they can compete with the influencer giving them constant dopamine hits on YouTube shorts. It's a really hard task, but there is a gateway. And we're trying to do it with our podcasts

that are storytelling podcast to tell us our stories, all available with your, torch membership, okay? And today, our audio book, chasing embers, we still listen to long content and we still take it in. If it grips us, and if it grips us, we'll actually pick up the book. You know, I read when I was 18. The first book I read for my own pleasure was Sherlock Holmes, the adventure of Sherlock Holmes. I must have read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes between 18 and 25, maybe five times, because I didn't think there could ever be a book as good as that one. Boy, was I wrong. But it took one story to get me there. Maybe chasing embers will be that story. We release it today as an audiobook as a gateway to this and every story that helps us remember who we are. Listen to your kids. Listen with your kids. Your kids are struggling right now. You most likely are struggling. It's amazing to me. I was telling stories in Washington, D.C.

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In this new world that's being run by Topos, Inc. The United States of America only exists as a fading memory. And it is very faded. No one really remembers what it. was. On the path to Utopia, the pillars of culture and religion and art and history and science were decimated. The past is dead. Forget about that. There's a whole new world ahead of us, and we're going to create it. 16-year-old Ember remembers the day her parents were taken by Topos seven years ago. Her only possession that she has from them is a leather notebook

containing the history of the world. But she doesn't understand what it is. It's contraband that could send her to, well, a nice euphemism would be sleep camp. She's selected as this young girl to serve on Topas' task force to reduce underage extremism, because all these extremists are starting to ask too many questions. And she has one chance to start a new life,

but it may cost her everything. and she doesn't understand it yet. This is a dystopian story that I wrote in my head, oh, probably 20 years ago, after reading Karl Marx. And I thought, when will our history, when will our great thinkers become something that teenagers want to read? And I realized in the dystopian future, when that's all banned and you're not allowed to read it,

I mean, that's what happened in the Soviet Union. You could not read. And those books were sought after, the ones that were banned. So I told this story to Michaela, who is, she was new on my staff at the time she had worked for me for about a year. And I said, hey, I want to tell you a story. Because she is a born storyteller. And she took this story, and she has now divided it into, I think, a six book series. Book one came out a couple of years ago, and it was New York Times Best Best.

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Chasing Embers, audiobook available now. Michaela Hedrig. She is a writer and producer for the... the nationally syndicated radio host and Blaze and Torch founder Glenn Beck and is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Chasing Embers. Michaela, how are you? I'm good. How are you, Glenn?

Good. Am I on a speakerphone? Am I around? You have a party listening to us or? No. You're in my kitchen. Okay. There are any kitchen?

Okay. Listen, Michaela, I came to you with this story, I don't know, a couple, three years ago. And you have taken it and you just made it into just something really, really, really good. And I've seen the outlines for the future books and it's riveting. It's just about to get really good. Tell people who have not heard about it why this is an important book, not only a good book and a fun book for your family and for your young adults, but it's important. You've been saying something lately that's really stuck with me, which is that we don't know our

own story anymore. As Americans, as citizens of the West, as descendants of the ideological lineage of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we don't know our story. And chasing embers is just like this entire summer for Torch is another way to infuse the values of our culture through stories into the minds of the next generation. And we do that in a way that's not just like sit down, and read this history story because most kids don't want to do that. We embed it into this really thrilling, dystopian story that my favorite review we ever get, Glenn, is my mom handed me this book and I don't want to read it because I don't really like Glenn Beck, but actually it's really cool.

And hopefully at the end, they walk away and they have a love for some of these real stories, like the story of William Tendale, the man who wanted to get the Bible to the world, the story of Squanto, who helped save the American colonist's lives. these are this foundational stories of who we are. And now we have a new way to teach them to the TikTok generation. Like you said, who's not reading. But now we have a new way with this audio book, hopefully, to get them into the gateway, like you said. So the stories that, you know, we're embedding history into it because they are searching for history.

And there's this group of these extremists that the corporation is trying to kill. And they live out in the, you know, the wilds. And they are assembling the pieces of our history back together. And nobody really knows the whole story. And so there is this journey of discovery. And the stories that we are telling, the history stories, it's not long and involved. They're just little pieces. And it's really, it's just a little nugget that we're hoping that your kids will go,

wow, that sounds really good. What was that person? and then go and start to do a journey on their own on those people. Explain how you went and picked the stories that are the sub, you know, stories, the pieces of history and how they were researched to make sure they were accurate. I had the unique privilege of being friends with David and Tim Barton, thanks to you and everyone at the American Journey experience so I could walk over and read the Declaration of Independence in an original draft if I wanted to,

but I partnered with American Journey Experience early on, and we tested out a series of maybe 15 history stories on the age group that the book is written for. And we put them in a room, and we told them these stories multiple different ways, and we asked them, which stories resonate with you and why, what sticks with you in these stories? And we picked the stories that created the most debate,

the most discussion, stories like Raul Wallenberg, who lied to save lives during World War. to, there was a hot debate between 12 year olds and 16 year old about whether that was the right thing to do. And so we knew, okay, this is a story that's got to resonate. This is a story that had modern application for these young people. And we picked it. And then we would thoroughly research it.

And we would test it at every level on the audience target, which is starting around age 12, but also we have adults that read the book now and tell us they really love it. It's very much. I mean, our goal was like Harry Potter. to where you're an adult and you can read it and you love it, but your kids will love it as well. I mean, it's made for young adults, but we are hoping that the parents, you know, there's, there's something about, you know, kids shows, Disney was great at this. His stories were aimed right for that same age group, but you could go as an adult and you'd love it.

You'd love it. I know. I've had adults come up to me a lot and tell me that as they were reading the story, they were on the edge of their seat. And one time I was sitting near someone who was reading it, and they were reading it. It's probably a 45-year-old. And that's such a high compliment to us. It's thrilling all ages.

We're really grateful. So you've got all these kids on TikTok and social media. How do you convince them, you know, a 13-year-old that the answer to the problems of the digital age, you know, is in a a dusty old book that nobody relates to anymore. This is your genius, Glenn, and the answer was to forbid it. It was to take these stories that are so accessible to us that are being offered to us in so many different ways. You can have a book on your doorstep in four days if you want any book in the whole world.

And in Chasing Embers, we took all those books that we want everyone to read, the stories want everyone to know, and we made them forbidden. We hid them. We made them something you have to go seek out, like, a treasure to find, a quest to go on. And at the end, we're these stories. And so they became something worth fighting for instead of something that we take for granted. And I think that that kind of adventure infused in the idea of a story is the way that we're going to hook this next generation, that they're seeking out something forbidden, something countercultural,

something that's going to start the kind of revolution that we want, essentially a revolution back to the founding principles. But that feels cool. Yeah, I will tell you, you know, my kids, they loved, oh, shoot, mocking Jay, what was that? Hunger Games. Love the Hunger Games. You know, they like those kinds of stories.

And this is very much kind of in that vein. But it is also, you know, Michaela's genius, is she is good at taking the things that are happening in the real world and going, okay, AI, how does AI fit 70 years from now? What does that lead us to? You know, we're talking now, we have people actually in our own country in the Democratic Party saying, we need re-education camps. What does that mean?

And what does that lead to a re-education camp? Right. And the way you have done these sleep camps has been, is remarkable. And it's, it's terrifying in its cleanliness. Yes, it's a, it's a scary world. I think one of the secret agendas of this series is to convince us of something that's absolutely true, that these stories from the past have something to teach us about life today and about the future.

So Homer and Shakespeare has something to say about AI and that the Bible has something to say about these issues we're dealing with with gender. They have these issues of, we're dealing with teachers. tyranny, totalitarianism, and all of that is able to transmit into our lives today. And yet, sleep camp is essentially the ultimate nightmare of totalitarianism. And hopefully you read it and you run in the opposite direction in your real life because you don't want your life to look anything like what sleep camps looks like and will continue to be revealed as throughout the series. It doesn't, it never says this in the book, but, you know, when you're listening to it, I've lived. listen to the audiobook now twice, maybe three times. And it's just really good. And when you're

getting to, you know, these things, it never says it in the book, but you can see the parallels if you're looking for it. You'll see the parallels in today. And you'll see like sleep camp how it's just made into this really good thing. This is, this is fine. This is really fine. This is a humane thing to do to keep society going. Its ends justify the means. So it's a lot of the stuff that we talk about on the show, but it is geared so you can share this with your kids. And you don't have to focus on any of that spooky stuff. They just, we did enough testing. Kids like that stuff.

And that's the gateway drug to get them into learning history and seeing how important history really is. Yeah. I'm so proud of you. Oh, okay. So I was saying it's a dystopia you can kind of walk into with your eyes wide open. That's what we're trying to warn against through the book.

And I can't tell you how much I enjoy working with you. Michaela, I hired you. I think I read a post of yours on some obscure blog, didn't I? There were two people reading my blog, you and my mom. And then you hired me. And she was talking. I hired her because she wrote a blog about telling stories and how important stories were. And I didn't have a job for her.

She had no experience in anything that what we were doing. doing and I remember going to Ricky and I'm like I'm going to hire this girl and she's like what but she has no and I'm like I know I know I know I don't know what exactly she's going to do but she's going to be really good at it no no I'm not saying that you didn't I'm saying that you were you you're a news producer and she had no news and I'm like I don't know what she's going to do but she has become one of our best writers she is a constant sounding board for me and she is wildly talented and I can't wait until we publish. Is book two coming out next summer? Do you know? We'll see, Glenn. That's up to you and me and everybody listening.

I guess if this does well. And we're very excited about where it can go. And I'm really grateful because people are always asking me that question, which I think is wonderful. I actually, Glenn, we wanted to tell one story, which was that. Real quick. This book, when we started to work on it, We're working with a lot of people in the audiobook that are maybe not Glenn Beck fans, per se, because they might be liberal because they're actors and they're audio technicians. And to some of them were kind of scared to be associated with you. By the time the story was over, they all wanted to be a part of it.

And I think that's the power of a story. And so if you have a kid, like that Torch Insider who's struggling, this is a way to get them in. This is the gateway drug to all the rest of the Torch content, the Glenn Beck. content that is accessible to even your liberal teenager that you're wondering how it happened, this book will entertain them and they won't realize that they're going to become a conservative by the end of it. I don't want to stick anybody out because they were so gracious and they were so honest about it. I wish we could tell you the full story here.

But honestly, what she just said is so true. These people were very, very liberal in all category. it was produced out in, I think it was out in L.A. and everything else. And so there was like nobody who was like a big fan. And all of them at the end loved it and were proud of their involvement in it. So this is something that can appeal to anybody. All right, Michaela, thank you. It's available wherever you get your audiobooks.

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Jonathan Turley writes, the actual red line appears to be polling that showed that Platner could not deliver his side of the Faustian bargain. He could not deliver Maine. Suddenly, again, women had to be believed, and the party had to change. choose his replacement. That is so true and it is so transparent. The minute that he's elected as the candidate and some news starts to come out, additional news, and the numbers start to flip, an insider polling, you know,

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Hey everyone, it's Cram Platner here. I think as many of you know, over the past couple days, I have faced some very serious allegations, and I just want to make it clear. This is all false. The things that have been claimed did not happen. It's not real. It is placed an immense amount of weight on me

as I think about what needs to happen now. We believe that for the movement to continue, it can't be made. And for that reason, we are suspending campaign operations. Suspending campaign operations. The movement. What is the movement here? This is critical.

This is truly critical. The Democrats are being eaten by the Democratic Socialists. This guy, you know, all the people that vetted him, This is all coming from the same stock. It's all Democratic Socialists. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, were deeply involved in this guy. I have a lot riding on him.

So the movement is, honestly, more than just stop Donald Trump. The movement is burn down the Democratic Party as we know it. And here's why it's interesting that Bernie Sanders is involved. Because what happened to Bernie Sanders in 2016? Bernie Sanders had a real movement going on. And the Democratic Party decided, no, you're not going to be the one. And they gave it to Hillary Clinton.

They selected. Now, this is slightly different than what's happening now. And I mean slightly, because this is the way it's been since Reagan. When Reagan came into office, they saw that, nope, remember, the Republicans did not like Ronald Reagan. okay the machine did not like ronald reagan he was outside of the machine but he got elected and uh and so the machine kind of had to get behind him it was kind of like it is with donald trump um and they really didn't like him and they fought him in a lot of things but he was very effective and got it done and he had a lot of charm and everything else but when the democrats saw that a guy who is outside of the machine a guy

that the party did not like could get elected, they went in and they changed their rules. And what they did is they came and said, we're going to have super delegates. So we're going to have the delegates, but then we're going to have these elites who are super delegates. And they can change everything if they want, okay? And it was just a safety. So you didn't get it. They said you wouldn't get a radical in there. But what they meant was, you wouldn't get somebody in who wanted to blow up the whole system that didn't that that the party hadn't selected so you hadn't really see that come to play until bernie sanders and then hillary gets all of the uh the super delegates together and she escorted all the super delegates and they all

are like now bernie you're out okay and that was the first time that i think democrats looked at it and wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. This is, they're selecting. They're not listening to the people. The party is actually rigged this. Yes, yes. Then you saw it come to play again. They didn't run primaries against Joe Biden.

They didn't let him out to be seen by anybody. And there were those in the party that thought, this guy cannot, he's going to lose. Only when they realized he was going to lose. That's why somebody in his own party suggested that they have a debate in the spring. That's never been done before. I've never seen that happen before.

Why did that happen? That debate should have happened when? In the fall, they didn't let it happen. They let that debate happen before they were nominees. Why would you do that? Because somebody in the Democratic camp went, he can't be the guy.

We got to take him out. So the internal machine turned on. And because you were already past the primaries, now it was left up to the superdelegates, or in this case, to the super, super elite, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and maybe a couple of others. and they were the ones that decided, and they picked Kamala Harris.

Again, in 2016, you didn't have a say on it, unless you wanted Hillary Clinton. And with Kamala, no one had a say on it. She was the candidate that you would vote for. And they kind of got away with it because Donald Trump just has to be beaten. Well, now they're using this tactic a lot. and they've just had Platner in and they knew exactly what he was. They knew that he's a Democratic socialist.

He is not for the Democratic Party. He is a deep radical. But I think a couple of things happened. I think Jonathan Turley is right. He not only said that once the internal polling showed he can't beat the Republican, we got to get him out of there. We got to get him out of there.

and now we can have the elites pick the candidate we want. So we're not going to pick a candidate that is going to blow up the Democratic Party. We'll pick one that we like. It could be that the one they like is a even stronger Democratic socialist. I don't know. I doubt it, but we'll see. The point is, they're picking, not you, they are. They've decided, and they did exactly what they did with Hunter Biden.

Remember, another thing the Democratic Party did in 2020 was they worked with the FBI, the DOJ, the social media companies, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and they said, if anything comes out about Hunter Biden, this is all an op from Russia. And they controlled the news and they locked it down. They did not let the American people see that news. And the American people after, Democrats after said, had I known that that was true, I would have voted differently. And Biden wouldn't have won.

So you're seeing now they control everything. They will get their way. Here's the problem. This is what happened to the Republicans in 2016. in 2008, you know, they run John McCain and it didn't work out well. And then they just keep going down this progressive Republican rhino path. And George Bush is the one that said, I'm going to bail out the banks. Well, it was, I mean, that was a universal outrage.

And nobody that I know that was a conservative liked that at all. And so what happened? We get the Tea Party because we see this and we go, you're bailing out the big banks, you're bailing out your buddies and you're not bailing out mom and pop. This isn't right.

This has got to stop. And so the Tea Party started. And they played along with it. First, they were scared. Then they played along with it for a while. And they got a new group. We had the biggest turnover ever. And Republicans all of a sudden

took the House and the Senate and all these real, you know, fresh blood came in. And we had some power, not enough, but some power. And those guys almost immediately were eaten by the rhino sharks. And we lost a lot of them quickly, okay? And so we saw that happen. And then we saw the GOP turn against the Tea Party along with the media and the Democrats because the party wanted its power.

Just like the Democrats, they wanted the power. They're not going to listen to a bunch of people out in the middle of the country who are trying to tell them how to run the country they know better. Okay. So the GOP stopped listening to the people. That's how you got Donald Trump. Because the GOP, they were like, screw you. We don't care. And they went to a guy who said, I'm not with them either.

But he was smart enough to begin to change it from the inside. He was not a blow it up. He's a change it from the inside. that's been happening with the Democratic Party now for a while. They are changing it to a Democratic Socialist Party. Nobody wants to admit that, but that's what happened. Democrats, you don't have your party anymore. You have a Democratic Socialist Party.

So if you're in with socialism, you're happy and you're fine. If you're not, and it's in the death rows now. It's in the last pieces of it. And they have to win, and they will do anything they have to to stop Donald Trump, but they also want their people in. And once they saw that Platner is causing trouble and could not win,

they're done with him. That's the other thing you have to learn about progressives. Oh, you can be their hero. Well, it's a guy in California that all of a sudden they found was such a dirtbag. Ricky, what's his name? He was instrumental in the impeachment. He was instrumental.

Swalwell. I mean, we've all known he was a dirtbag. The minute he became a problem for what the machine wanted, he's dead to them. And they destroyed him. They just leave wreckage of bodies behind them. And you can see the pattern. Are you going to look at it, Democrats?

I don't know. But you should because your body could be one of those bodies laying in the wake of that machine at some point. And it will be at some point. but here's the main point. The Republicans didn't listen to the people. They stopped listening to the people. The Democrats are engineering the people.

And that's not going to sit well once people figure that out. So you don't need the socialists to burn the Democratic Party down. You don't. they're burning themselves down. Because if the socialists don't eat them first and work their way in and worm their way into positions of power and then they just transform it, like Donald Trump transform the Republicans, and they transform it into a Democratic Socialist Party,

it won't matter because the Democrats are engineering people and people don't like to be manipulated. And they're being manipulated. and they know now what Platner said was this this vote it wasn't about me it really wasn't about him it's not it's not about the people of Maine either it's about the party and so the democrats are burning their own house down and believe me there's somebody out there already building a new house I don't know which house they move into but they're going to move into a new house soon and that doesn't seem like a good thing, but just an observation from the outside.

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It's not about the Me Too and all those women that have been lied to. It's about the party. It's about the collective. What does the collective need? And this goes through everything. In fact, there's a speech that I gave earlier this week in Washington for Kufi. And I talked about the god of the individual and what we're really fighting. Listen to this.

It's available at Torch at glenbeck.com slash torch. But listen to this minute and a half. The world hates the Jew. because the Jew gave the world the God of the individual. Before Mount Sinai, the gods belong to the tribe. The gods belong to the empire, the mob, might made right. The strong ate the weak. And the single human life was worth nothing against the machinery of the collective.

And into that world, walk to God who did what no other God had done before. He called one of us by name. Not a nation, not an army. One old childless dude in the desert. Abram. And God said, I will make you a name. And then he did something even crazier.

He changed the name. Abram became Abraham. Jacob wrestled with him in the dark. and he became Israel. God does not deal with the collective and the masses. He gives individuals names. It's a really powerful speech that it goes way beyond what's happening in Israel. It affects everything.

That's really, truly what we're fighting is collective over individual. Glenbeck.com slash torch.